Ministry of Commerce: Last week, pork prices continued to rise 0.1%

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 23rd According to the commercial forecast and monitoring released by the Ministry of Commerce on the 23rd, the price of edible agricultural products monitored by the Ministry of Commerce rose slightly last week (Aug. 15-21), including pork 0.1%, continuing last week. Rally.

Among other agricultural products, the average wholesale price of 18 kinds of vegetables last week rose by 2.1% from the previous week (the same below), among which leaf vegetables such as lettuce, Chinese cabbage and rapeseed rose by the top, rising by 15.1%, 14.1% and 11% respectively.

According to an agricultural product analyst from the China Business Productivity Promotion Center, typhoon “Plum Blossom” and continued high-temperature weather affected the growth and transportation of some vegetables, and the market supply decreased. Last week, vegetable prices rebounded. After the beginning of autumn, the vegetable market will gradually decrease, the self-sufficiency rate of vegetables in some northern regions will begin to decline, and the amount of out-of-order vegetables will increase. It is expected that the price of vegetables in the later period will remain stable and increase.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching. Last week, some food processing companies increased their stocks, and the retail price of eggs rose by 0.8%.

The retail price of grain and oil rose steadily, among which peanut oil, soybean oil, rapeseed oil and rice rose by 0.5%, 0.3%, 0.3% and 0.3%, respectively, and the price of flour was the same as the previous week.

Last week, the increase in the volume of fresh seafood listed, coupled with the successive listing of freshwater fish in major producing areas such as Jiangsu and Hubei, the average wholesale price of eight aquatic products decreased by 0.9%, and the decline rate increased by 0.1 percentage point, among which prices of small octopus, big yellow croaker and grass carp fell 2.1. %, 1.7%, and 1%; salmon, trout, and big whiting decreased by 1%, 0.9%, and 0.4%.

In the main production materials, the price of steel, chemical products, building materials, and light industrial raw materials rose. The price of mineral products remained flat. The prices of energy, agricultural materials, nonferrous metals, and rubber fell.